Nirvana

A Special Offer for Early Adopters

This blog post is an announcement for folks who’ve been with Nirvana since the early days of development. We wanted to let you know that after 3 years of burning the midnight oil, Nirvana has finally launched!

On July 22, 2012 we stopped referring to Nirvana as “beta”, began charging for the service (for new users), and made the transition from being a bootstrapped startup into a sustainable business.

As a special thanks for sticking with us during development, the full-featured Nirvana will remain free for you for a little while longer, but we’d like to encourage you to consider becoming a paying subscriber.

We’ve priced Nirvana at $5 per month, or for a limited time you can lock-in an annual subscription for $29 per year.

We hope you find this a reasonable sum. Paying for the service will help us to keep things fast and responsive, develop new features, and make getting things done with Nirvana even more fun and delightful.

Is the paypal payment method still coming out before the discount deadline?

Stephen on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 4:47 am

I am the same as the first poster. As soon as I have an Android app, even a beta one, count me in. I am still limping along with MLO. I need Nirvana to be successful. It really is the only fully GTD solution for Android/Windows users. Any idea how far away the Android Beta client is?

Richard on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 8:51 am

Been using Nirvana for about 2 weeks now, and I feel that I’ve finally found a powerful yet simple to use GTD system.

I’ll be paying up! This is a product well worth supporting. Keep up the good work.

Adam on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 10:14 am

I don’t use an Android phone, but doesn’t the mobile (web) version of Nirvana run on it? That’s what I use on my BlackBerry and it works/suits my needs just fine.

Simon on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 1:04 pm

I’m another of the early, early adopters. I paid immediately.

Javier M on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 1:46 pm

Adam, are you using Nirvana on your Blackberry? At the moment I haven’t been able to use it… Which URL do you access? Could you share your browser’s configuration? Thank you very much in advance!

lolmaus on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 2:30 pm

I’ll pay the day i try the Android app.

Flokass on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 2:47 pm

Same with me.

Alberto on
Wed, 22nd Aug 2012 4:01 pm

What will happend if I dont get the plus option?

I will lose tasks?, I will lose active projects?, will I lose the areas?

I think it is reasonable for us to demand a date that an android app will be available (with some +/- of course) before you implement the deadline for early adopter price increase.

Stephen on
Tue, 28th Aug 2012 9:14 am

Hi, I am trying to pay but I am having a problem. I go to the web page https://account.nirvanahq.com/upgrade, choose the $29 per year option but then what do I do? There is no button/link to transact the rest of the process other than “Return to App” on the top right hand side. I select that and it takes me back to the dashboard. If I select “Nirvana Plus” again it takes me to the same page and radio button for either selection is blank once again. Am I missing something?

Stephen on
Tue, 28th Aug 2012 9:25 am

Refreshed the page a couple of times and up she popped!

Elbert on
Tue, 28th Aug 2012 8:13 pm

@indygreg71 – well I think “to demand” may be a bit strong, but “to know” is well within bounds. Best we can tell you is “in a few weeks.” But we can’t promise a concrete date. We believe that nirvana is worth $29 just for the web app, and the mobile apps (for free) are a valuable if not critical add on. Totally understand your position that mobile access (android in your case) is very important. We think nirvana is a good value at $39, so we hope the $10 difference isn’t a deal breaker. We were just trying to offer a thank you for early adopters, not create a situation where one might feel shafted for paying full price!

Stephen on
Wed, 29th Aug 2012 2:14 am

@Elbert, $39 per annum, let alone $29, plus an app is an absolute bargain! Thanks for giving us a time frame. Really appreciated. Looking forward to the app!

Stephen on
Wed, 29th Aug 2012 5:30 pm

Btw, where do we keep an eye on news for the Android app? Will the announcement be made here on the blog or somewhere else?

Thanks @Elbert. I did already! I actually emailed about it months ago as I used to help the developer of Due Today quite extensively until he indicated he would not be implementing and auto next action function. That is how I found you guys. More than happy to help, break and give copious amounts of technical feedback!? And I am a paid up member now! Looking forward to it!

Alex Jones on
Thu, 30th Aug 2012 4:15 am

Any News on the Paypal Integration guys? Is it gonna be added before the 31st??

Best guess – we’ll extend the $29 offer a few days for early adopter + paypal folks… It’s looking like we may get paypal up for tomorrow, but really, a 4 hour window doesn’t seem very fair.

Bruce Marriott on
Fri, 31st Aug 2012 3:08 am

@Elbert

Good re extension for Paypal. You do need it, but it is also appreciated as is the $29 offer (and its lock-in).

indygreg71 on
Fri, 31st Aug 2012 10:45 am

I signed up for the $29 in good faith. I like this product and where it is going. I hope an android app is close to a reality, but I will live until this.

I believe strongly in supporting good software and not just living on freeware, so I put my money where my mouth is.

Flokass on
Mon, 3rd Sep 2012 2:10 pm

Still no PayPal?

Dennis on
Tue, 4th Sep 2012 2:57 am

To all who say ‘I’ll pay when _____’, can I offer a little perspective? I’ve been with Nirvana as a free beta product for a long time. Early on I saw these guys really understood GTD and had the best CONCEPT of a tool out there. But, getting the concept in to action has indeed been a long process. Early on I theorized that Nirvana HQ wasn’t the developers’ only priority or income stream. This has been good and bad. The bad part is it has been painfully slow developing. But good from the perspective that they never gave up and have always progressed to where they promised. If you are holding out paying, let me encourage you to view the meager payment as a “kickstarter” investment into a proven product. Nirvana is the best GTD tool there is, and what they have promised, they will deliver.

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